Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade

[The Architect Of Fate]

That study is garbage therefore your conclusion is garbage

[Angrboda]

I don't believe FA is authentic. Nobody who learned English as a second language would have great difficulty figuring out the meaning of a common English word like 'candid'. I think he's a fake. A troll.

[The Architect Of Fate]

I don't believe FA is authentic.  Nobody who learned English as a second language would have great difficulty figuring out the meaning of a common English word like 'candid'.  I think he's a fake.  A troll.

True and I say this as someone who has English as a third language.

[arewethereyet]

I don't believe FA is authentic.  Nobody who learned English as a second language would have great difficulty figuring out the meaning of a common English word like 'candid'.  I think he's a fake.  A troll.

And he's a fifth year computer student who has never used a search engine.  Wonder how he got here in the first place.

[FlatAssembler]

That study is garbage therefore your conclusion is garbage

In social sciences, all studies are garbage compared to the studies in hard sciences. But they are still better than relying solely on intuition.

[FlatAssembler]

But a claim that is not based on a study is way more wrong than a claim that is based on a flawed study.

No it is not 

So, are you a rationalist or an empiricist? Because it seems to me that you reject empiricism here.

[The Architect Of Fate]

So, are you a rationalist or an empiricist? Because it seems to me that you reject empiricism here.

Nowhere in  empiricism does it say you should embrace shitty studies because it's better then nothing.

[The Architect Of Fate]

In social sciences, all studies are garbage compared to the studies in hard sciences. But they are still better than relying solely on intuition.

We have been over this. That thinking is pure bullshit

[FlatAssembler]

So, are you a rationalist or an empiricist? Because it seems to me that you reject empiricism here.

Nowhere in  empiricism does it say you should embrace shitty studies because it's better then nothing.

Tell me, what does "evidence-based medicine" mean? It's one application of empiricism. Then try to apply that to politics to understand what "evidence-based policy" means.

[FlatAssembler]

In social sciences, all studies are garbage compared to the studies in hard sciences. But they are still better than relying solely on intuition.

We have been over this. That thinking is pure bullshit

No, it's more-or-less the application of the principles of evidence-based-medicine to politics.